Things I Think Are Cool is a blog series where I talk about things I have found interesting and helpful. They can be time savers, productivity tools, podcasts, books, products, or even people. In addition to blogging a lot, I also speak at numerous user groups and conferences. One of…
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Matthew Soucoup
Matthew is a Sr Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft and a Pluralsight author from Seattle by way of Madison, WI. He ❤️s 📱 & ☁️ development and Wisconsin craft 🍺 and 🧀.
Xamarin.Forms ViewModel First Navigation Library
I wrote a couple articles a while back on how to perform view model first navigation within Xamarin.Forms. One article [https://codemilltech.com/xamarin-forms-view-model-first-navigation/] concentrating on the simple stack based navigation and another [https://codemilltech.com/view-model-first-navigation-part-2-the-devils-in-the-details/] that puts Master/Detail pages into the mix. Now when I talk…
Things I Think Are Cool: Realm
Things I Think Are Cool is a blog series where I talk about things I have found interesting and helpful. They can be time savers, productivity tools, podcasts, books, products, or even people. Inevitably there will come a time in your app's life that it will need to…
MFractor - A ReSharper for Xamarin.Forms(!?!)
I find Xamarin.Forms development rather enjoyable. One, I get to use C# (as opposed to Swift or Java), if I'm lucky I'm able to develop a complete app with almost 100% shared code, and the Xamarin.Forms framework is pretty well put together - it…
Things I Think Are Cool: Custom XAML Markup Extensions
Things I Think Are Cool is a blog series where I talk about things I have found interesting and helpful. They can be time savers, productivity tools, podcasts, books, products, or even people. When I first started developing with Xamarin.Forms, I did everything within my power to stay away…
Growing Your First Xamarin.Forms Mac App
The big buzz ever since Microsoft Build has been about Xamarin.Forms 3.0 - and rightfully so - there's a lot of cool features in it. But I don't want to overlook the next release of Xamarin.Forms - and that's 2.3.…